Re: Screensaver while gdm is runing?

[Tim Moss <debian@to11.net>]

Apparently, on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:45:33AM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> What's the trick to geting xscreensaver to run, whicle gdm is displaying
> alogin prompt?
> 
> I added to /etc/X11/gdm/Postsession, the following
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/screensaver -display $DISPLAY -no-splash -timeout 5 0nice 10
> 
> But I don't see the process runing.
> 
In /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, go to the [greeter] section and edit
BackgroundProgram=
like this
BackgroundProgram=/usr/lib/xscreensaver/xmatrix -root

I think this is what you're looking for.